Address Completion
Jörg Volbers
joerg at joergvolbers.de
Tue Apr 11 00:45:11 PDT 2017
I've attached a diff which would do the trick. Don't know how to
contribute 'officially', and I am not much of an elisp guru, so
that might be a good starter for someone (tm) else.
I guess the problem is not restricted to ivy-mode; other
completing interfaces like ido might pose the same problem. So it
could be useful to generalize the approach and introduce a
function which checks different conditions, instead of checking
within the let construct. But there's some other stuff to do now
for me right now. :-)
Jörg
Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 10 2017, Jörg Volbers <joerg at joergvolbers.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I press <TAB> looking for an address while writing mail,
>> vanilla notmuch offers me one preselected candidate. Since I
>> use ivy-mode, this canididate narrows down the list of all
>> candidates, forcing me to delete the initial input (C-a C-k)
>> before I can select among this list.
>
> Do you use 'internal completion or separate command to find
> completions ?
>
> If internal, the first choice would be to install `company'
> package from ELPA (I don't know how it works with separate
> command -- which I use, with selection-menu). Company-mode
> provides nice popup where to choose completions from.
>
> If that is not an option, someone(tm) could provide a patch
> which, based on (fboundp 'ivy-read) uses either ivy-read or
> completing-read, with their specific options for completion
> (what I saw about ivy-read that looks pretty good). OTOH, if
> someone(tm) can show (completing-read ...) which works good as
> is, or when wrapped with ivy, such patches might just be
> tolerated(tm).
>
> FWIW, I've used the following code in my notmuch setup like
> forever...:
>
> require 'selection-menu) (setq
> notmuch-address-selection-function
> (lambda (prompt collection initial-input)
> (selection-menu "Send To:" (cons initial-input
> collection) t)))
>
> Tomi
>
>> I currently override this behavior by setting
>> notmuch-address-selection-function to my own function:
>>
>> (defun jv-notmuch--address-selection (prompt collection
>> initial-input)
>> (completing-read
>> prompt collection nil nil orig 'notmuch-address-history))
>> (setq notmuch-address-selection-function
>> #'jv-notmuch--address-selection)
>>
>> This works as intended.
>>
>> Now my question: Is this something specific to ivy-mode, and
>> would it be possible to add an option which simulates the
>> above behavior (basically, using the pre-set variable 'orig'
>> instead of (car-options) in notmuch-address-expand-name), so
>> that I do not need to insert my own function which adds no
>> functionality?
>>
>> Thanks (also for CC me via PM)
>>
>> And by the way, notmuch really is great, thank you for this
>> software!
>>
>> Jörg
>>
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